Danny Guan is a writer with an avid interest in anime, manga, video games, and more. When he isn't writing for Game Rant, he's writing on his own personal website. In order to increase the ...

In the ‘90s, Sega was known for taking big risks. Some of those risks (like the aggressive marketing of the Genesis and Sonic the Hedgehog) paid off. Others, like the surprise early launch of the ...

Sega will release another microconsole with games built into it. A Sega Mega Drive Mini 2, aka the Sega Genesis Mini 2, will debut in Japan on October 27, 2022. A worldwide release isn’t confirmed yet ...

The Sega CD was a cutting-edge video system for its time—the “console wars” era of the early ’90s— but by 1995 it had been entirely abandoned as Sega shifted focus to its disastrous next-gen system, ...

While we might have to choose between either Xbox, Playstation or Nintendo for our video game consoles nowadays, back in the 80s and 90s that wasn't the case. Sega used to be a massive competitor in ...

The Sega CD, known as the Mega-CD elsewhere, was the disc-drive peripheral for the Sega Genesis, and while this was a simple console “add-on,” the CDs allowed for things that simply weren’t possible ...

If history is written by the winners, then Sega almost certainly lost the 1990s-era console wars. The company stopped making hardware. It lent its Mascot out to Nintendo to star in Super Smash Bros.

The Sega Genesis Mini 2 promises to be quite the plug-and-play option from Sega, this time mixing Sega CD and some unreleased games into the fun. We’ve seen reveals of just a few games that will come ...

Matthew is the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police. He's been gaming since his first taste of a TI-99 at four years old. Matthew has been an Android user since the HTC Hero and has covered ...

Memorable game consoles like the NES and Sega Genesis are partially or completely unplayable today.

Are you old enough to fondly recall SEGA's Genesis system? It was known as the Mega Drive outside of the US. SEGA's 16-bit machine was the second of the fourth-generation game consoles. While it was a ...